[Qgis-developer] Google Summer of Code liaison officer

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

In the event nobody else has volunteered, I am happy to act as liason. Can you give me the 2 minute guide on what I need to do Barry?

Regards

Tim


> On 10 Apr 2017, at 11:37 AM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Margherita Di Leo just sent out a reminder on the osgeo-gsoc-mentors
> list that reviews need doing by tomorrow or the projects automatically
> fail.
> 
> Alex appears to have gone very quiet - are you there? Can you do the
> GSoC reviews? Do you need help? Can someone else do them? I'd do it
> but as a proposed mentor I might be somewhat biased...
> 
> I think it might look bad if QGIS fails to engage with the OSgeo GSoC process.
> 
> Barry
> 
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Rowlingson, Barry
> <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Quick summary for anyone interested:
>> 
>> There's five projects:
>> 
>> * My remote-control API project which has a strong student and two
>> signed-up mentors, me as main mentor.
>> 
>> * A QGIS-PySAL (spatial analysis library) integration project which
>> also looks like a good student. I'll co-mentor that but it needs a
>> main mentor to do most of the work with the student.
>> 
>> * Two projects that seem to be about improving vector geoprocessing
>> algorithms, which I would have thought were libGEOS's business, but
>> the students don't mention libGEOS which worries me.  No mentors
>> signed up.
>> 
>> * A project on raster uncertainty visualisation that is working on
>> improving and extending the students' existing plugin. No mentors
>> signed up.
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for bringing this up Barry!
>>> It really seems that QGIS has got enough proposals to work on, but we
>>> are in heavy need of mentors.
>>> 
>>> It might be the students "fault" to just expect that "somebody" will
>>> take mentorship anyway while in reality they should actively _search
>>> and ask_ for mentors.
>>> 
>>> I still hope QGIS will make it and can only say I hope that there will
>>> be some developers willing to take mentorship.
>>> 
>>> There is still a week left to take brief look at the proposals.
>>> 
>>> We could do something like an internal ranking and survey about the
>>> proposals but still - we have to few mentors.
>>> 
>>> So please any developers willing step up and give new developers a
>>> chance to get deeper into QGIS.
>>> 
>>> As a member of the QGIS community and currently helping osgeo-gsoc
>>> admin team I would really like to see QGIS in the GsoC projects.
>>> 
>>> regards
>>> Werner
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Barry Rowlingson
>>> <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> Who is the liaison officer for QGIS' GSoC proposals? There was an
>>>> email from Margherita Di Leo on the OSGeo-GSoC list about the liaison
>>>> officer having to review submitted proposals, but I didn't see anyone
>>>> claiming to be the QGIS liaison officer.
>>>> 
>>>> There are currently five QGIS proposals in the system, and only one of
>>>> them has any mentors signed up at the moment. Projects without two
>>>> mentors will automatically fail on April 11th.
>>>> 
>>>> I think all projects will fail on April 11th if a QGIS Liaison Officer
>>>> hasn't reviewed the proposals.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry if the qgis-dev list isn't the right place to ask this, I
>>>> imagined the Liaison Officer would be someone on the developer team.
>>>> 
>>>> Barry
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